Daniel Friesen schreef:
Mark Reginald James wrote:
Daniel Friesen wrote:
You do have an interesting idea. However, it's not something that would work as a built in to MediaWiki. MediaWiki internally has a hardwired one title, to one active revison, which contains one blob of text.
Daniel, I'd assumed that some new core support would be required. But my bug has now been re-classified as an extension request, so perhaps it can instead be accommodated as an extension.
The concept may indeed be compatible with one title, one revision, and one text. The only thing that may not be supported is the ability to have separate permissions for changing the pro and con texts on pages that are not freely editable. Perhaps this does in fact require separate revisions, meaning that a single point-counterpoint page would actually require the fusion of two wiki pages.
MediaWiki is meant to be completely open, and so it really doesn't support per-page permissions for different groups. So the permissions part doesn't matter to much.
We do have per-page edit restrictions, though. Traditionally, you'd solve this by creating two pages (one with pros, one with cons), which you can place different edit restrictions on, and jam them together using transclusion. But of course that doesn't really allow for cleanly rebutting points when you can't edit the point itself.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)